Today I called Lynn to tell her about it, and Lynn -- who recently co-authored an amazing true story about what W.E.B. DuBois called "Debt Peonage" -- called the Kos system "cyber-sharecropping on the digital plantation": Bowers has been pickin' cotton for the Man, and he's gettin' mighty tired of livin' in a dirt-floor shack while Jerome and Markos are getting a six-figure ad revenue up there at the Big House.

Both Iowa and NH expect largess and money, lots of money, from the candidates vying to compete in those two contests. It's a financial racket that would disappear overnight if other states muscled ahead of them.

Moulitsas -- a "progressive activist" whose paranoia is obvious -- is part of a scam operation. Therefore, to relieve the cognitive dissonance:Everybody's scamming!Entire states are guilty of scamming!

Does the word "projection" ring a bell?

"It's a financial racket" -- yeah, at $832,000 a year, Kos knows all about that.